Focus groups say they see pagan symbols, anal beads, ghosts, secret codes, and messy moustaches on t - Polidicks

Source - [url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2011/10/25/pol-cp-plastic-money-focus-group.html]CBC[/url] (Really funny read, I recommend you check out the whole thing) [img]http://i.imgur.com/ujqyu.png[/img] [release]Canada's new plastic money may give you a little more bang for your buck. New documents show a focus group mistook a strand of DNA on the $100 bill for a sex toy. Most people also thought the see-through window on the new polymer notes was shaped like the contours of a woman's body. Others looked into the port holes of a famed Canadian icebreaker and saw a skull and crossbones staring back at them. These are just some of the offbeat images focus groups thought they saw on the plastic bank notes that go into circulation next month. Internal documents show the Bank of Canada fretted that Canadians would find all kinds of unintended images on the new bills. So the bank used focus groups to spot "potential controversies."[/release] [release][U]Security features stir imagination[/U] "The overall purpose of the research was to disaster check the $50 and $100 notes among the general public and cash handlers," says a January report to the central bank. Almost every group thought the see-through window looked like a woman's body, but participants were often shy about pointing it out. "However, once noted, it often led to acknowledgment and laughter among many of the participants in a group." The new $100 bills feature two portraits of Prime Minister Robert Borden. On the other side of the bill, there's an image of a researcher at a microscope and a depiction of the double-helix structure of DNA. [b]But the DNA strand evoked something else. A Vancouver focus group thought it was "a sex toy (i.e., sex beads)."[/b] Others thought it was the Big Dipper. There was no mistaking the microscope, but when focus groups flipped over the bill they noticed the edge of the instrument showed through like a weird birthmark on Borden's cheek. Respondents also thought the former prime minister was either cross-eyed or that each eye was looking off in a different direction, the report says. "Others felt that the PM's moustache is unkempt."[/release] About time we honoured sex toys by putting them on money.

I must see for myself. Somebody in Canada. Send me a $100 bill. I promise I am good for it.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;32962544]Most people also thought the see-through window on the new polymer notes was shaped like the contours of a woman's body.[/QUOTE] The one pictured? Because if so that's an oddly shaped woman.

[QUOTE=Venezuelan;32962623]The one pictured? Because if so that's an oddly shaped woman.[/QUOTE] Canadian women come in all shapes and sizes.

[QUOTE=valkery;32962617]I must see for myself. Somebody in Canada. Send me a $100 bill. I promise I am good for it.[/QUOTE] We don't have the new bills yet.

I see an angry fish

[quote=CBC]The polymer bank notes have security features that make them harder to fake than paper money. But focus groups called the bills "Monopoly money" and said they did not feel as real as paper money.[/quote] You mean people thought our money didn't already look like Monopoly money? Because as a Canadian I've been making fun of them by saying that for years(love our colorful money btw), heck I thought Americans loved to make fun of our money by calling them Monopoly money.

american money looks so old and dated

I honestly can't see any of those things so either I'm looking at it wrong or these guys are seriously perverted. Seriously, how the fuck do you mistake a DNA strand for any kind of sex toy?

[QUOTE=meppers;32963099]american money looks so old and dated[/QUOTE] To be honest, that's what I like about it, most new money looks like monopoly money.

[QUOTE=The golden;32963125]Ha, but at least our bills actually look somewhat creative. [img]http://media.nowpublic.net/images//a6/f/a6f76cf21c206ddf7b70a4ee9e6ec64b.jpg[/img] Here's the CURRENT setup we have, for those that are curious.[/QUOTE] LOD'S O EMONEY

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;32963182]To be honest, that's what I like about it, most new money looks like monopoly money.[/QUOTE] At least out money isn't the size of a notebook.

Sounds like a pornography.

Wow they hired a perverted focus group. I've got to agree about the moustache though.

They should put Jack Layton on a bill, that is a moustache we can all trust.

If those guys think that that clear part looks like a woman, then they probably would think that Benjamin Franklin's left cheek would look like a woman, too. And that the number '1' looks like a dildo.

Fake, everyone knows Canadian money looks like this [img]http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/3586/loadsamone.jpg[/img]

messy moustache is such a nice... phrase messy moustache messy moustache Speak moustache in french for extra pleasure

why can I see through the money?

[QUOTE=MIPS;32966111]why can I see through the money?[/QUOTE] It's for convenience. Looking at your bill but don't want the added disadvantage of the inability to see past it at the same time? No longer! [quote] Most people also thought the see-through window on the new polymer notes was shaped like the contours of a woman's body. [/quote] [IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7344169/whatthe.png[/IMG] [video=youtube;wlv41Vk_Eo4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlv41Vk_Eo4[/video]

[QUOTE=MIPS;32966111]why can I see through the money?[/QUOTE] because it's futuristic space money

i think american money looks cooler than the vast majority of the world's currency

Things I've learned: Canadians have cool looking money and perverted focus groups. Sounds like my kind of country.

[QUOTE=Atlascore;32969137]Wow. That's hilarious, Canadian money is basically monopoly money.[/QUOTE] Why because our money looks pretty and your money all looks the same?

[QUOTE=Atlascore;32969137]Wow. That's hilarious, Canadian money is basically monopoly money.[/QUOTE] colour coded money means we can pull out exactly what we want without removing it fully from the wallet haha your money is sucky money for sucky people own

[QUOTE=The golden;32963125]Ha, but at least our bills actually look somewhat creative. [img]http://media.nowpublic.net/images//a6/f/a6f76cf21c206ddf7b70a4ee9e6ec64b.jpg[/img] Here's the CURRENT setup we have, for those that are curious. The $10 is not present in that picture; it's purple.[/QUOTE] They all look the same, with the exception of the five dollar note.

[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;32969667]They all look the same, with the exception of the five dollar note.[/QUOTE] colourblindness is a terrible condition, I'm so sorry

[QUOTE=Zeke129;32969603]colour coded money means we can pull out exactly what we want without removing it fully from the wallet haha your money is sucky money for sucky people own[/QUOTE] Still looks like monopoly money.

[QUOTE=-Rusty-;32969900]Still looks like monopoly money.[/QUOTE] and, judging by the european currency i've held, american currency feels better in the hand. the european currency ive held feels like flimsy notebook paper.

The Taiwanese dollar has you beat I'm afraid. Color-coded but less moustaches: [img]http://www.banting.my/contents/images/stories/banting.my_promotion/money_changer/Taiwan_money.jpg[/img]